That's an awful lot of trucks, and an awful lot of oil demand displaced. Given that anywhere near that magnitude of production would also mean—by necessity—that other competitors would also have to step up their electric truck game, we could be looking at a major shift in how the many unnecessary, heavy things that move our many, unnecessary heavy things about are powered.

Of course, that change will only happen if Elon can deliver on his promises. Or somewhere close to them. He's now building 2,500 Model 3s a week, apparently—that's a far sight short of the 5,000 he was projecting not long ago—but its also a hell of a lot of electric cars.

Glass-half-full people and glass-half-empty people, do your thing in the comments.